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Boosting your home

If only every home had sufficient water pressure to install a combi-boiler…
Salamander’s Home Boost is a brand-new, technological marvel that complies with water regulations by boosting incoming mains pressure to the legal limit of up to 12 litres per minute – problem solved! Now, more homes than ever can enjoy the benefits of a combi-boiler by adding Home Boost to a ‘boiler bundle’…

In today’s environment the general public are becoming more aware of environmental issues and the need to save money at the same time. The growth of combi boilers over the last two decades has been driven by these two key factors – as well combi boilers being generally easier to install.

Unfortunately, the benefits of installing a combi boiler are not universally available to everyone. The demands we’re placing on the UK’s mains water infrastructure these days have never been greater. We’re putting more and more strain on the mains water systems throughout the country, thereby reducing the amount of flow rate available – especially in highly populated built up areas – which is a problem if you want to install a combi boiler, particularly if that boiler has to be installed several floors up in a block of flats.

The majority of combi-boilers require a minimum flow rate of around 2 litres/minute and, unfortunately, there are thousands of homes in the UK in which the flow rate doesn’t even achieve that. And even if they do achieve in excess of 2 litres per minute, anything less than 12 is not making the most of the combi solution.

Boilers up to around 35kW tend to deliver a flow rate up to around 12-14 litres/minute. This means that any property with a flow rate less than this will either experience activation problems on the hot water side of the combi or have a boiler that is not working to its full potential.

UK shower pump manufacturer, Salamander, has recently introduced a brand-new product, ‘HomeBoost’, which delivers an innovative solution to the problem of poor domestic water pressure and flow.
Householders now have a simple, low cost solution to poor mains pressure and flow; and with the product now being fully WRAS approved, Home Boost installers can have added confidence in a fantastically innovative product.

Home Boost applies leading edge micro-technology to an old problem, allowing the trade to offer customers a low water pressure solution that is easy to install, efficient to operate, is comparatively inexpensive to buy and is fully compliant with all relevant UK regulatory bodies

If the incoming mains flow rate is between 1.5 litres/minute and 12 litres/minute, the HomeBoost can be installed to lift this flow rate up to, but not more than, 12 litres per minute – directly from the mains.

Once installed, the HomeBoost monitors the amount of water passing through it and ensures that the legal limit of 12 litres/minute, which is the maximum legal amount that can be drawn from the mains without needing to install a break tank first, cannot be exceeded.

Please remember that care must be taken to ensure that it is a low flow issue you’re dealing with, and not a problem with the physical main pipe, such as a collapsed ‘lead mains’.

The emergence of Home Boost is the ideal opportunity for installers to win new business. Now, you can eradicate the day-to-day inconveniences that poor water pressure inflicts on so many people, and you can offer them the option of a move to a more efficient way of combi-boiler living, all thanks to Home Boost from Salamander Pumps.

Salamander have teamed up with Plumb Center to include Homeboost with a range of competitively-priced, low water pressure and flow solution combi boilers, featuring Home Boost (including Worcester, Vaillant, and Ideal).